Couldn’t agree more. Parenting failures are the root of so much (though being charitable, there are many parents in working conditions that basically destroy their ability to parent effectively). Regardless of parents, any kid is shaped (raised) in big ways by the communities they participate in. I’ve got no problem telling a little knucklehead - even one I’ve never met - to quit mistreating folks in various ways when I see it. And I wish more people would too.

But I also recognize that has the potential to really blow up (even violently) depending on the kid’s parents and the scenario. But still, many of us just recoil from even the idea of a disagreement, and that’s the mechanism that allows this stuff to fester in our youth. Take responsibility for your society, be mean to a kid who needs it today!

Ah, but yet…

I think it’s probably being in the age range that kinda straddled the time between now - when it’s all an unshakeable piece of daily life - and the time before it existed / was commonplace. Having grown up before all of these world changing tech advances, and then being there for the ride, is just a singular experience and perspective neither our parents or our kids can possibly have.

I’m really grateful for having gotten to take the ride, but it does strike me as sad in a way.

Just got mine set up this weekend, really works a treat! Utterly painless. Even put the client on the Roku I apparently don’t own, hope the pricks somehow notice lol

Hey thanks! I probably wouldn’t have gone and checked again without your comment, was having all kinds of trouble. Looks good now.

Edit: Hmm, spoke too soon, still seeing that sometimes. But at least now subsequent attempts work, I’m not getting credentials rejection in addition to that (although…I think that part may have been my fault, looking back…embarrassing lol).

This is exactly right, and thanks for saying it. The assumption that poor people don’t understand money is just so completely incorrect, and frankly damaging. Poor folks understand money (and specifically, what it can and can’t do) better than anyone else on this earth.

Hey - I don’t usually do this, but I grew up poor and I get it. DM me, I’ll buy you the game.

How long have you spent with this? I ask because it’s frankly an impressive amount of detail and understanding you’re displaying, given your statement that you’d never administered an OS without a desktop environment. Kudos!

Are you familiar with iFixit? They provide a ton of technical manuals from what I’ve heard, but I haven’t personally used them. Also be aware of library.kiwix.org - they’re a Swiss charity that provides archival downloads of knowledge bases, including iFixit. They might have more resources that you’d be interested in too.

Great reminders about the lack of physiological markers. The (or one?) elephant in the room, to me - I’d phrase it as - to what degree a kid’s just naturally well- or poorly-suited to the public school environment itself.

A child that finds it difficult to sit in one place and listen to words about abstract material for hours every day…I mean does that sound divergent in any way?

One of the fundamental markers of childhood in my experience is a certain…animation, just this almost irresistible urge to move around, negotiate whatever activity is occurring and in what way, with whoever is nearby…switching activities and modes of play fluidly. Seems like the most normal shit ever to me lol.

I do recognize we need a standardized way to educate our kids in a modern society, but as we learn more about young brains, we gotta start developing a more diverse way to accomplish the learning and development of self-discipline. The one-size-fits-all approach just obviously leaves many underserved, and worse, leaves them internalizing a lot of frustration with self, not to mention taking all kinds of drugs to “treat those symptoms”.

Well spill the beans ya old goat, which two games?!